10 Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, A Crossroads
January 12 marked the 10th anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Haiti. But its aftershocks can still be felt today, in the mass protests against corruption and cutbacks.
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Protests in Haiti Are Living Proof of Hope
The media is portraying the protests in Haiti as "hopeless." But Milourdes Augustin, Solidarity Program Officer for Haiti and West Africa, can see the hope and potential in this revolt.
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Government in Haiti Attacks Protests
The government in Haiti is meting out harsh repression against protests for democracy and social justice. The Haitian Studies Association released this statement to declare its solidarity with the people of Haiti.
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Patriotic Forum Spells Out Challenges and Opportunities for Haiti’s Future
The Patriotic Forum gathered at the Lakay Center in Papaye to discuss the major problems facing Haiti and charted a vision for future organizing.
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Haiti Stands in Solidarity with Puerto Rico
Our Haitian partner Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) expresses their solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in the streets, protesting corruption and disaster capitalism, and calling on the governor to resign.
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Building Powerful Movements
Around the world, women, Indigenous People and youth have bravely united in ever-larger and more powerful movements and coalitions.
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Family Farming Could Feed Haiti and Protect It From Climate Change
Jean-Rusnel Etienne, agricultural engineer consultant and teacher-researcher, discusses what agroecology is and why it’s important for Haiti.
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Knowing their Audience: Popular Media and Education for Movement Building in Haiti
From radio to popular education, our partners like Haiti's Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) use methods that are sensitive to the people they’re reaching.
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Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution is Still in Effect
An analysis of the current crisis in Haiti written by our very own supporter in the struggle, Gina Athena Ulysse.
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2018 in Review: Growth of Resistance, Impact
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
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Black August: Local Struggles, Global Solidarity
BOLD program-alum Natasha Soto discusses building a local organization in the Movement for Black Lives, and what she learned from our delegation to Haiti. Natasha organizes in Just Resisting Buffalo and Black Love Resists in the Rust.
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Black August: Resistance Shared Across Borders and Time
We're continuing our Black August series of Haitian delegation members. In this installment, Grassroots board member Ninaj Raoul discusses the importance of sharing history and resistance across borders.
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Building International Solidarity
The international training courses created as part of the Global Peasant Solidarity Movement Building Initiative provide the foundation for the intellectual, technical, and cultural exchange that takes place during these brigades.
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Black August: A Lesson in Solidarity in Practice
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Gina Athena Ulysse is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist and self-described Post-Zora Interventionist, and she currently teaches anthropology at Wesleyan University.
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Black August: Seeing Hope and Sticking to It
Grassroots International is commemorating Black August with a series of reflections from our recent delegation to Haiti. Marie Helene Fabien Hall lives in Jackson, Mississippi and supports Cooperation Jackson, a Black and Latinx cooperative economics movement and fellow member of the Climate Justice Alliance.
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Dessalines Brigade: An Activity with Women from MOREPLA & an Agroecology Training with Tet Kole
Last month the Jean -Jacques Brigade of International Solidarity with Haiti held various activities in the women's and production sectors.
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Haitian Uprising in the Wake of Gas Hikes, Neocolonialism
On Friday, July 6, Haitian protesters took to the streets in widespread demonstrations against proposed cost hike in gas (and gas products) in the country.
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Sharing Lessons in the Black Diaspora: Black Women Lead Delegation to Haiti
This week, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and Grassroots International are leading a delegation in Haiti. A group of U.S.-based Black female organizers and activists are travelling the country, meeting with Grassroots International partners and sharing lessons of resistance.